Rob Mee opened the Main Stage talks on Tuesday, December 5, 2017, by letting the audience know how far Pivotal had progressed over the past year since the last SpringOne Platform Conference in 2016 that was held in Las Vegas. He introduced Onsi Fakhouri, who is the head of R&D at Pivotal.
Onsi emphasized the culture at Pivotal which values and encourages rapid velocity in innovation and development. Some of the key announcements included the introduction of the Spring Reactor technologies which allow for the use of non-blocking asynchronous patterns into the Spring ecosystem. Another key announcement is the update of the the Spring Tool Suite to version 4.
A number of key partnerships were announced including ones with IBM and Microsoft. IBM Liberty WebSphere will now be supported as a first class citizen in PCF. Also, as part of the multi-cloud support that is core to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), the Azure stack will be supported as a first class citizen in the next major PCF release. Microsoft had a running Azure stack on the show floor for attendees to examine and try out while at the show.
Another major announcement is the support of Kubernetes on the PCF platform. Kubernetes will work in conjunction with BOSH as part of the new PKS offering.
In all, there were over 20 product and service announcements during this keynote. For the full keynote, please see the YouTube link below.
The talk can be viewed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/_uB5bBsMZIk.
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